Japan’s Hayabusa2 spacecraft pulled off a maneuver in July that no space agency had managed before, aiming a laser at a small ...

One asteroid impact may have carved Deimos, buried its surface in debris, and reshaped the entire Martian moon. An ...

Superintelligent AI is one of many modern threats humanity faces. Former DeepMind researcher Ramana Kumar explains what could ...

Nitrogen is a key ingredient in the biomolecules that form the building blocks of life. Yet as an unbonded gas, it is far ...

The asteroid was estimated at about 0.8 meters, and it posed zero threat to people or infrastructure on the ground.

A new study reveals how molten rock and fine asteroid dust could have produced an intense global heat pulse after the impact ...

A tiny asteroid named CERNQ52 entered Earth’s atmosphere over the Indian Ocean after being detected only hours earlier.

Engineer Mohammed Shawkat Odeh, Director of the International Astronomical Centre (IAC), said that astronomers detected a ...

CERNQ52, a diminutive asteroid, streaked into Earth's atmosphere over the Indian Ocean, detected by astronomers merely hours ...

A feather discovered inside 66-million-year-old fossilized dinosaur poop may help explain why modern birds survived the ...

In a new Nature Communications study, researchers developed a universal scaling framework for the strength of granular ...

A newly discovered small asteroid is reportedly expected to enter Earth’s atmosphere near northwest Australia today. The ...